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By FRANCES D’EMILIO Associated Press ROME (AP) — A charity operating a rescue ship with 306 migrants aboard says after days of waiting at sea…

By MIKE CATALINI Associated Press WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP) — Republican state Sen.-elect Ed Durr says he will have a learning curve in his…

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — Jill Biden has used her first solo White House event as first lady to highlight the challenges…

By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press MADISON, Wis. (AP) — Kyle Rittenhouse took the stand in his murder trial, acknowledging he used deadly force when…

By MATT OTT AP Business Writer The U.S. monthly budget deficit fell in October as the government collected more taxes from individuals and…

MADRID (AP) — Spain’s National Court has decided to extradite the former security chief of late Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez to the United…

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A coalition of 10 states has filed a lawsuit challenging a new rule by President Joe…

By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ Associated Press HAVANA (AP) — The Cuban Foreign Ministry has summoned hundreds of foreign diplomats to a meeting where it…

LONDON, Ky. (AP) — The charge against a 61-year-old man accused of holding a 16-year-old girl captive until a driver on a Kentucky interstate…

By JOHN SEEWER Associated Press Universities that adopted COVID-19 vaccine mandates this fall have seen widespread compliance. That’s true even…

By ARITZ PARRA and BARRY HATTON Associated Press MADRID (AP) — Authorities in Madrid are defending their record of handling gas generated by…

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press BAGHDAD (AP) — Iraq’s prime minister has toured a Baghdad neighborhood on foot days after he escaped an…

By JOSEPH KRAUSS Associated Press RAMALLAH, West Bank (AP) — The Palestinian prime minister has warned Israel that its refusal to accept a…

By MICHAEL KUNZELMAN and JACQUES BILLEAUD Associated Press A New Jersey gym owner who punched a police officer during the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S.…

BRUSSELS (AP) — Belgian authorities say they have approved plans to have a COVID-19 booster shot for all who would want one. Health ministers from…

BOSTON (AP) — Investigators trying to learn why a commercial fishing boat sank off Massachusetts nearly a year ago are using some high-tech…

By DAVID A. LIEB and NICHOLAS RICCARDI Associated Press Gerrymandering is surging in states where legislatures are in charge of redrawing voting…

By MICHAEL HILL, JENNIFER PELTZ and MICHAEL R. SISAK Associated Press ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — New York’s attorney general has released hundreds of…

PARIS (AP) — U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris and French President Emmanuel Macron have agreed that France and the United States are ready to work…

By CHINEDU ASADU Associated Press LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) — Another round of violence across the northwest and central parts of Nigeria has led to the…